A DEVASTATING third world war between the US and Russia is inevitable if the two countries cannot agree over the bloody Syria conflict, Turkey has warned.
"Turkey has warned the US and Russia are on the brink" of nuclear war."
Tensions between Washington and Moscow have plunged to Cold War levels in recent weeks after US ended talks on how to approach the war in Syria.
Since the breakdown between the global superpowers, the Kremlin has vowed to shoot down any American fighter planes that attack President Bashar al-Assad’s forces in Syria.
And now Turkey’s deputy prime minister Numan Kurtulmus has warned: “If this proxy war continues, after this, let me be clear, America and Russia will come to a point of war.”
A Kremlin insider has warned that war with the United States could break out “even before the November elections in the U.S.,” urging citizens to stockpile food.
Sergei Markov, a member of the Civic Chamber, a Moscow-based state institution, told the Daily Beast, “These are the most serious tensions between Moscow and Washington in decades….the war might begin even before the November elections in the U.S.”
“I personally plan to stock 200 cans of pork to be ready for a potential war crisis,” Markov added, “and I advise everybody to do the same.”
Markov’s warning should probably be treated seriously given that he isknown to have “close ties to (the) Kremlin”.
As we previously reported, Russian citizens have been stockpiling food and essential supplies for months as paranoia about a major conflict escalates.
Tensions have risen yet further in recent days after it was revealed that the Obama White House was considering a major cyber attack against Russia in retaliation for Moscow’s alleged “interference in the American presidential election”.
While Americans are kept distracted by the media’s obsession with Donald Trump’s alleged mistreatment of women, Russians have very different priorities.
State-owned television stations are urging citizens to find out where their nearest nuclear bomb shelter is located, while managers of the Zenit Arena, a huge half-built stadium in St. Petersburg, recently received an official letter from the Ministry of Emergency Situations demanding that they create underground facilities that will be used to protect citizens from nuclear fallout.
As we reported earlier this month, 40 million Russians from all levels of government recently took part in a civil defense “emergency evacuation” drill that was a test run of how the population would respond to a “disaster occurrence” under an “emergency” situation.
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